136: How She Grew Her Popcorn Side Hustle From $500 a Month to $30,000 Months (Khadijah Polly of Kay’s Kettle Corn)
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Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
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🗓️ 13 March 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Today in the guest chair we have Khadijah "Kay" Polly, the owner and POPrietor of Kay’s Kettle Corn, a gourmet popcorn company based out of Houston, TX.
In 2012, Khadijah started Kay’s Kettle Corn while working as a full-time corporate recruiter. She set the plan in motion to leave her job and take Kay’s Kettle corn to the next level. In October of 2014 she quit her job and it’s been POPPIN ever since.
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| 0:00.0 | And I literally took a leap of faith, jumped out that plane and was like, you know what, I'm not being fearful of anything else. I know what recruiting looks like. I'm sick of driving way across town I'm going to turn to |
| 0:14.4 | this notice and my mom was like okay well let's talk this out. |
| 0:19.4 | You're listening to Side Hustle Pro the podcast that teaches you to build and grow your |
| 0:25.1 | Side Hustle, from Passion Project to profitable business. And I'm your host, |
| 0:29.6 | Nakela Matthew Zocome. So let's get started. |
| 0:35.0 | Hey, hey guys, welcome, |
| 0:37.0 | welcome back to the show. |
| 0:38.0 | Today and the guest chair, we have Kadesha K Polly, |
| 0:42.0 | the owner and pop priorer of Kay's Kettlecorn, a gourmet company based out of Houston, Texas. |
| 0:50.0 | She's also a speaker, the author of Pop Coins, How to Make $500 a Month with a home-based |
| 0:56.4 | popcorn business, and the founder of Popcorn CEO's, which stands for Children's Economic Opportunities Program, where she visits schools to teach students |
| 1:06.4 | about entrepreneurship based on the principles of supply chain management. |
| 1:11.1 | Krija also consults budding food business entrepreneurs on how to |
| 1:16.0 | market and sell their products. How cool you're doing a lot Miss Kedizia. |
| 1:20.1 | I know anything to do with food and marketing and fun that's me. |
| 1:25.0 | Well what is your earliest memory of having this entrepreneurial spirit? |
| 1:30.0 | Oh I would like on my own probably like 10 years old making bracelets. |
| 1:36.7 | A little beaded bracelets on the beach, Venice Beach in California with my sister. |
| 1:41.6 | Like I literally like so like to but I just |
| 1:45.2 | remember I was wanting to be an entrepreneur like my dad had a new stand so that was |
| 1:51.3 | like cash money you know people coming in picking up comic books |
| 1:54.7 | and in little gum and newspapers and then counting that cash and seeing the |
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